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Human Life Quotes

Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals; poetry does not come from donkeys; international peace does not come from wars; social justice does not come from selfishness. With all our knowledge of chemistry we cannot make a human life in our laboratories because we lack the unifying, vivifying principal of a soul which comes only from God. Life is not a push from below; it is a gift from above. It is... Fulton J. Sheen
Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If life—the craving for which is the very essence of our... Arthur Schopenhauer
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions. Milan Kundera
Human life was rarely shapely, only intermittently meaningful, its clumsiness the inevitable consequence of the victory of content over form, of what and when over how and why. Salman Rushdie
Yukio Mishima quote: "Human life is limited but I would like to live forever."
Human life is limited but I would like to live forever. Yukio Mishima
Eudora Welty quote: "Human life is fiction's only theme."
Human life is fiction's only theme. Eudora Welty
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure..."
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece Vladimir Nabokov
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool..."
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. Friedrich Nietzsche
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable Harry S. Truman
Friedrich Durrenmatt quote: "Human life is beyond comprehension."
Human life is beyond comprehension. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Katherine Anne Porter
Alfred North Whitehead quote: "Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of..."
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. Alfred North Whitehead
Samuel Butler quote: "Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of..."
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Samuel Butler
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. Elihu Root
Vinoba Bhave quote: "Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies..."
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions. Vinoba Bhave

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